Schuster Isabell, Gul Pelin, Eisner Manuel, Ghuneim Lana
Free University of Berlin, Germany.
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
J Interpers Violence. 2021 Dec;36(23-24):NP12922-NP12948. doi: 10.1177/0886260520903131. Epub 2020 Feb 10.
Previous research in the Middle East and North Africa has revealed justifying attitudes toward wife beating among adults, but little is known about adolescent attitudes and its predictors. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to examine theoretically relevant predictors of supportive attitudes toward wife beating among adolescents in Jordan. Due to limited evidence on the role of gender, potential differences between girls and boys were explored. A total of 856 students (455 female) from 14 secondary schools in Amman, the capital city of Jordan, participated in the cross-sectional study which was conducted during normal school hours. Religiosity, beliefs regarding control of female sexuality, moral neutralization of aggression, and parental harsh discipline were assessed to predict attitudes toward wife beating, controlling for sociodemographic variables. Acceptance rates of wife beating ranged between 6.1% and 50.5%. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that beliefs supporting control of female sexuality, moral neutralization of aggression, and paternal harsh discipline predicted supportive attitudes toward wife beating, but religiosity and maternal harsh discipline did not. Separate analyses for each gender yielded that maternal harsh discipline was a significant predictor of wife beating attitudes for girls, but not for boys, whereas paternal harsh discipline was a significant predictor for boys, but not for girls. Furthermore, beliefs regarding female sexuality and moral neutralization of aggression mediated the relationship between religiosity and wife beating attitudes. Policy measures and intervention efforts targeting particularly harsh discipline and sociocultural beliefs are sorely needed to address this issue in Jordanian society.
此前在中东和北非地区开展的研究揭示了成年人对殴打妻子行为持有的正当化态度，但对于青少年的态度及其预测因素却知之甚少。因此，本研究的目的是探讨约旦青少年对殴打妻子行为持支持态度的理论相关预测因素。鉴于关于性别作用的证据有限，研究对男孩和女孩之间的潜在差异进行了探究。来自约旦首都安曼14所中学的总共856名学生（455名女生）参与了这项在正常上课时间进行的横断面研究。研究评估了宗教虔诚度、对女性性行为控制的信念、攻击行为的道德中和以及父母的严厉管教，以预测对殴打妻子行为的态度，并对社会人口统计学变量进行了控制。对殴打妻子行为的接受率在6.1%至50.5%之间。分层回归分析表明，支持对女性性行为控制的信念、攻击行为的道德中和以及父亲的严厉管教可预测对殴打妻子行为持支持态度，但宗教虔诚度和母亲的严厉管教则不然。按性别进行的单独分析显示，母亲的严厉管教是女孩对殴打妻子行为态度的显著预测因素，但对男孩则不然，而父亲的严厉管教是男孩的显著预测因素，但对女孩则不然。此外，关于女性性行为的信念和攻击行为的道德中和在宗教虔诚度与对殴打妻子行为的态度之间起中介作用。约旦社会迫切需要针对特别严厉的管教和社会文化信念采取政策措施和干预行动来解决这一问题。
